Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

lOi WHICH ncr SOn IS pastor.
Sir Charles Dixie spends three
hours every day in sword practice and
pistol shooting at short range.
Vienna horse cars have two COM
partments, one for those who smoke
and cne for those who do not.
An enthusiastic friend of the labor
ing man is about to open a five-cent
savings bank, at Oshkosh, Wis,
John Fletcher, an Illinois farmer,
has church on his farm and has hired
a preacher for the coming year,
AT a recent wedding in New York
City the bridesmaid was herself engaged
to marry the bridegroom year ago.
Lace is said to be driving out fril-
lings in England, and the Honiton
factories at Exeter are oyerrun with
orders.
"A youth committed suicide by
jumping from the spIre of the st.
Augustine Court Church, height OF
1l5 feet.
Connecticut is said to be the only
state east of Nebraska, where an
attempt at suicide is not a legal misde-
meanOr.
"A Colorado jury found that the
death of gambler, who had been killed
in a shooting affray, resulted from
''lead poisoning"
There are IN this country 300, 900
Indians who are no more civilized than
they were 250 years ago, except that
they know the use OF rifles and
whiskey.
by announcing himself as preach
or and acceptably filling the pulpit Of
church at LaPlatte, a sacriiegicus
Nebraska college boy won bet of the
cigars.
| "A Philadelphia soap manufacturer
declares that he advertises only in news
lpapers for the reason "that a man who
doesn't read the newspapers has n o use
for SOAP"
Miss Lalia Jordan, Of Washington,
Ga, has a treasure that she prizes very
highly. 1t is little shoe worn by the
wife of President Cleveland when she
was baby.
The use of the Suez canal in NOV
ing the tea crop from China to America
is rapidly being abandoned for the
swifter means afforded by transconti-
mental railways.
Louis, a former slave Of Mrs.
Rosser, OF Texas, says that Mrs. Far
sons, wife of the anarchist, IS his sister
and that she was freed by President
LincOln'S proclamation.
The cash value of a 6-year old boy
has been determined by Bridgeport,
Pa. jury, who awarded the lads father
$3.50 for damages sustained by the
drowning of his son and heir.
Lord WOlseley IS nearing the END
of his exhaustive lie Of the Duke o.
Marlborough. He has been working
on it for many years during the interval
Of peace in his warlike career.
Policeman Patrick Kearney, who
has the distinction of arresting Guiteau
when he shot President Garfield, has
been pensIOned out of the police fund
of Washington at $50 per month.
Walter Hall of Boston, now owns
Daniel WebSter'S AIarshield estate. 1t
contains now some $50 acres aud sup
ports 30 cows, ) horses, , yoke of oxen
and several head of young stock.
The obsidian cliff of Yellowstone
park is an elevation half mile long by
from 150 to 200 feet high. the material
of which is said to be as good glass as
any that has been artiicially manufac-
tured.
"A Prohibition Bible is being sold
in Atlanta, Ga. 1t incloses 4 bottle Of
whiSkey. By touching spring at one
end of the book, the other end opens,
and the neck of the bottle bObs up
serenely.
"A young man, while hunting in
North Park, Col, attempted to set a
bear trap and both his hands were
caught and held fast. After week of
indescribable agony he thought to re-
lease himself by gnawing through his
wrists. He bled to death after he had
gEawed off one hand.
Mrs. Fleming, of Wood county,
Ohio, lighted an extra candle the other
night when the preacher and his wife
called, and after they had gone away.
her husband, Josiah, boxed her ears for
the display of extravaganza. Although
they have been married fOrty-two years
she has sued for divorce.
There is a very mean man in Port
land, Ore lie keeps big store in the
centre of the city. Several nights ago
a special policeman found the store door
and sent hack to the mer-
chants house to notify him. The mer-
chant walked down and locked the
door, but left the policeman to pay the
hackman.
"A red handkerchief wrapped about
a lighted lantern, enabled farmer who
had discovered broken rail near Chat
ham, on the Boston and Albany railroad
to bring passenger train to stand
still at that point the other night, and
thus prevent what might have been a
terrible accident.
"A case IS being tried at the Bruce
(Canada) aSsiZeS, in which the plaintiff
asks for a mandatory injunction to re-
strain the defendant from keeping bees
alleging as reason that the bees annoy
him AID E.s family, and that they inter-
fere with his business as a blacksmith,
by stinglng horses brought to his shop
to be shod.
-Rain-ir-the-face, the pet chief of
tho Dakota Sioux, who shot General
Custer, has appealed to the Indian
Bureau to be allowed to attend school
at Virginia. He has always been an
influential man among the various
bands, but has found out that an Indian
with some education, like Red Cloud,
is stronger with the young men Of late
years than the ignorant chiefs.
The "bird SPIDER" of tropical Amer
lea has body four and one-half inches
long. The circle of the ties of the legs
has diameter of seven inches. 1t is
so named because it builds its nest to
capture small birds. lizards and reptiles.
The nests usually contain 1900 to 1000
eggs. There are about 100 species of
this formidable creature.
II is reported that at Dresden the
experiment has been tried of placing
nickel lightning-rod on a building.
The advantages claimed for this metal
arc that hainr non-cnrrniihla II will